as for yesterday, it was a wash. i got nothing done due to going to bed at 4AM, waking unexpectedly @ 8AM, and deciding to stay up in case the tree service came. they didn't. i went back to bed, w/my cats after sitting up till noon.
but i made some digital drawings using my wacom bamboo & laptop, my samsung galaxy s android phone, and viewsonic gtablet. i drew some IN photoshop and imported some by emailing them to myself or uploading them to picasa then, edited in photoshop.
i also downloaded some new HD camera apps to my phone, which are pretty remarkable. took the phone from 1.3 M or whatever to 4 or higher- maybe 8M.
i played with the phone/cam -experimenting- like the pic above- and got what i thought were some cool results. a certain party hates this look- but it, like everything in life [except death & taxes]is temporary. the hair will grow and the beard will go... and vice versa, as it has done over & over in life...
the tree service called & came today and cleaned up what would have taken me a lifetime, in maybe 2 hours- normally i just let fallen trees lie & let nature take its course. case in point, the oak which has been on this land for hundred[s] of years, which got knocked down by hurricane gustav years ago. i let our old yard man, willie, take the wood for firewood- either for his home or sale?- i didn't care, i just wanted it gone. after getting all the manageable pieces- limbs and branches- he broke his saw on the tree trunk and left it lying across the driveway, where it has lain until today. were i younger & stronger & more ambitious man, i could have cut & sold the tree as firewood- but these hands dont need 'to go there' they are for art and music, thank you.
so voila. in one feel swoop, or as my friend thunder thighs used to say "one foul sweep" they cut the dying pine ready to fall on the house; one by the pond that was ready to fall, cut & moved the oak, then cleaned up everything... until i am amazed. i can see that there is a new garden spot in the making, where the pine was- closer to the house.
AFTER
1/2 WAY
BEFORE
i haven't ventured out to make photos of the oak spot yet. i told them not to cut the semi stump that is still tall and standing, which might have been a mistake. BUT... earlier in the year it had green branches; due to summer heat... not now. i'll leave it as sculpture; and go mow where all the debris was this afternoon. to have a clean lawn again... priceless
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